But it has become the fashion nowadays to ascribe hatred to non-co-operationism.  And I regret to find that even Col.  Wedgewood has fallen into the trap.  I make bold to say that the only way to remove hatred is to give it disciplined vent.  No man can—­I cannot—­perform the impossible task of removing hatred so long as contempt and despise for the feelings of India are sedulously nursed.  It is a mockery to ask India not to hate when in the same breath India’s most sacred feelings are contemptuously brushed aside.  India feels weak and helpless and so expresses her helplessness by hating the tyrant who despises her and makes her crawl on the belly, lifts the veils of her innocent women and compels her tender children to acknowledge his power by saluting his flag four times a day.  The gospel of Non-co-operation addresses itself to the task of making the people strong and self-reliant.  It is an attempt to transform hatred into pity.  A strong and self-reliant India will cease to hate Bosworth Smiths and Frank Johnsons, for she will have the power to punish them and therefore the power also to pity and forgive them.  To-day she can neither punish nor forgive, and therefore helplessly nurses hatred.  If the Mussalmans were strong, they would not hate the English but would fight and wrest from them the dearest possessions of Islam.  I know that the Ali Brothers who live only for the honour and the prestige of Islam, and are prepared any moment to die for it, will to-day make friends with the latter Englishmen, if they were to do justice to the Khilafat which it is in their power to do.

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I am positively certain that there is no personal element in this fight.  Both the Hindus and the Mahomedans would to-day invoke blessings on the English if they would but give proof positive of their goodness, faithfulness, and loyalty to India.  Non-co-operation then is a godsend; it will purify and strengthen India; and a strong India will be a strength to the world as an Indian weak and helpless is a curse to mankind.  Indian soldiers have involuntarily helped to destroy Turkey and are now destroying the flower of the Arabian nation.  I cannot recall a single campaign in which the Indian soldier has been employed by the British Government for the good of mankind.  And yet, (Oh! the shame of it!) Indian Maharajas are never tired of priding themselves on the loyal help they have rendered the English!  Could degradation sink any lower?

THE CONGRESS CONSTITUTION

The belated report of the Congress Constitution Committee has now been published for general information and opinion has been invited from all public bodies in order to assist the deliberations of the All India Congress Committee.  It is a pity that, small though the Constitution Committee was, all the members never met at any one time in spite of efforts, to have a meeting of them all.  It is perhaps no body’s